NO DMs. Retired Somali Learing System professor. USAF Veteran '72-'76 ๐, 1stAMD, 2ndAMD, 4thAMD, Former FFL, shooter, loader, instructor, general PITA.
I never wanted to be a political account.
I'm a British Jew. A husband. A father of two. An engineer. A man who believed that if you worked hard, treated people decently and kept your head down, the world would mostly leave you alone.
My grandfather survived Auschwitz.
For most of my life, antisemitism felt like history. Something to remember, not something my children would have to face.
Then came October 7th.
Since then I've watched Jewish people told to stay quiet, hide who they are, apologise for who they are, or accept standards that would never be applied to anyone else.
For a long time I said very little. I didn't want to drag my family into politics. I convinced myself someone else would speak.
Eventually I realised that silence comes with its own cost.
Martin Luther King Jr wrote:
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
So I'm speaking.
Against antisemitism.
Against extremism.
Against political intimidation.
For free speech, liberal democracy, integration and honest debate.
You don't have to agree with me on everything.
But if you're willing to have difficult conversations without hatred, you're welcome here.
Private Carlton Barrett was possibly the smallest man in his regiment.
5 feet 4 inches tall. 125 pounds.
On the morning of June 6, 1944, he landed at Omaha Beach in neck-deep water, machine gun fire cutting the surface all around him. He made it to shore.
Then he turned around and went back in.
A soldier was drowning. Barrett pulled him out. Then another. Then another. For hours, under constant fire, this 125-pound man waded back into the surf again and again, pulling drowning men to safety and physically carrying the wounded to evacuation boats offshore.
But he didn't stop there.
He ran dispatches the full length of the fire-swept beach. He found soldiers paralyzed by shock and calmed them back into action. He appeared wherever the crisis was worst, doing whatever needed doing, treating rank and personal safety as irrelevant details.
He did this for hours without stopping.
His Medal of Honor citation says his courage had "an inestimable effect on his comrades." That is military understatement for: this small, anonymous man held that section of beach together through sheer force of will.
He survived the war.
His comrades later said his life darkened after he came home. He lived quietly and died in 1986 in California, largely unknown outside of military history circles.
5 feet 4 inches. 125 pounds. He went back in.
Remember him.
๐จ BREAKING: Major Security Breach at Houstonโs George Bush Intercontinental Airport;
25-year-old Houston man Abdulrahman Oriyomi is facing felony charges after authorities say he slipped through TSA screening with a fake boarding pass and boarded a United flight to Los Angeles.
He moved through multiple security layers, blended in with passengers, and got past the gate while employees were distracted.
Once onboard, he sat in the wrong seat, bounced between bathrooms, used a false name, and even helped force the plane back to the gate.
The flight was delayed for hours.
HOW does this happen at one of Americaโs busiest airports? TSA and airport security have some serious explaining to do.
Our so-called security systems are an absolute joke.
Maher torches the media panic over CBS changes by comparing '60 Minutes' cast turnover to 'Saturday Night Live' โ then tells a sitting U.S. senator to his face that his claims about Trump controlling the network are unproven.
So even now that you makin' mo' money than Massa, you don't like the country that protects you?
In 2026, there are no slaves and no slave owners left in USA.
Get your shit together!